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Sainkho Namtchylak
12+ albums
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Sainkho Namtchylak (Сайнхо Намчылак) is a Soviet experimental singer, born in 1957 in a village in the south of Tuva, U.S.S.R. which borders northern Mongolia. She has an exceptional voice, spanning seven octaves and proficient in overtone singing; her music enmeshes avant-jazz, electronica, modern composition and Tuvan influences. In Tuva numerous cultural influences collide: the Turkic roots it shares with some Mongolians, the Xinjiang Uighurs, and most people of the Central Asian states; various Siberian nomadic ethnic groups, principally those of the Tungusic group; Russian Old Believers; migrant and resettled populations from the Ukraine, Tatarstan and other minority groups west of the Urals. All of these, to extents, impact on Sainkho's voice, although the Siberian influences dominate: her thesis produced while studying voice, first at the University of Kyzyl, then in the Gnesins Institute in Moscow during the 1980s focussed on Lamaistic and cult musics of minority groups across Siberia, and her music frequently shows tendencies towards Tungus-style imitative singing. In her native village she learned traditional singing from her grandmother and continued to study in her local college and by herself. She left to study further in Moscow. Her degree completed, she returned to Tuva where she became a member of Sayani, the Tuvan state folk ensemble, before abandoning it to return to Moscow. There Sainkho worked with several ensembles: the Moscow State Orchestra; the Moscow
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